I can’t seem to find a place to reply to Bonnie’s question on identification of a tazetta that she posted. I suggest that the flower stem is from an open pollinated tazetta seed and shows variation from the species. The flower…
Year: 2016
Narcissus viridiflorus Hybrids
Some viridiflorus seedlings flowered in the greenhouse during autumn 2015. They were grown up outdoors and later on brought to the greenhouse for faster multiplication and for flowering. Only few seedlings developed; most of them were killed by frost. Therefore…
Brian Duncan interview
I was privileged to be asked to interview my friend and daffodil hybridizer Brian Duncan from Northern Ireland at the American Daffodil Society’s Fall Board meeting in Memphis TN in 2014. Thanks to Kirby Fong for recording, editing and posting…
Catalog from Alec Gray’s Nursery in 1956
Matt in Scotland has found a catalog put out by Alec Gray back in 1956. He has scanned a few pages to the SRGC Forum http://www.srgc.net/forum/index.php?topic=13893.0 He can send out a 3MB file of the entire catalog to anyone who asks. If…
Winter in NE North Carolina
I complained about no winter. Northeast North Carolina is the only place where one can get a sunburn and a frostbite in the same 7 day period. A little snow on the ground on the OuterBanks of NC, and a…
Identification of this daffodil?
I need help identifying this daffodil is in bloom right now. The first year it bloomed there was only one bloom and now it has four. Many thanks in advance for suggestions about the identification of this daffodil. Bonnie at…